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The most important quality any piece of writing can have is doneness.
Fred Barnes / Commentator
Quality
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Writing
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The American people are not as casualty-sensitive as the weenies in the American press are.
Fred Barnes / Commentator
Casualties
People
Sensitive
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Ronald Reagan has a story for every occasion. Bill Clinton has an excuse for every occasion.
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Bills
Excuse
Stories
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President Obama insists hes a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.
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Guy
President
Usa
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President Obama insists he's a free-market guy. But you have to wonder whether he understands how a free economy really works.
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Free Economy
President Obama
Wonder
Obama
Insists
Understands
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Overreaction is one of the things that congress specializes in. I can't think of anything congress does better than overreact.
Fred Barnes / Commentator
Doe
Political
Thinking
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Religion's crucial role in the lives of many people... is rejected out of hand by the political community, especially the press.
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Christian
Hands
Religious
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The only person who was a strong public opponent of the war in Iraq is Barack Obama. The other people weren't. So I can understand why all the left is mad, because they're being shut out.
Fred Barnes / Commentator
War
People
Strong
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Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. 'I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves,' he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one.
Fred Barnes / Commentator
Men
Care
Implying
Take Care
Views
Obama
Republicans
Reject
Straw
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Never miss it - that's the second biggest compliment I'd give to RealClearPolitics.com. The first is that it has become indispensable to anyone, in or outside of journalism, who's interested in politics, policy, or world affairs.
Fred Barnes / Commentator
Giving
Missing
World
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Obama sounded like Al Gore on global warming. The more the case for man-made warming falls apart, the more hysterical Gore gets about an imminent catastrophe. The more public support his stimulus bill loses, the more Obama embraces fear-mongering.
Fred Barnes / Commentator
Men
Catastrophe
Fall
Fear Mongering
Global Warming
Gore
Hysterical
Loses
Stimulus
Obama
Al
Al Gore
Apart
Bill
Man-Made
Embraces
Falls
Imminent
Public Support
Warming
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The coverage of Central America in recent months points up one of the ugly truths about the American press: the better the news, the less of it you get. As the war began to turn against the Communist guerillas in El Salvador, there was a palpable dip in the attention paid to it.
Fred Barnes / Commentator
War
America
Media
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Presidents with strong nerves are decisive. They don't balk at unpopular decisions. They are willing to make people angry. Bush had strong nerves. Clinton, who passed up a chance to eliminate Osama bin Laden, did not. Obama is a people pleaser, a trait not normally associated with nerves of steel.
Fred Barnes / Commentator
Angry
Clinton
Decision
Nerves
People
Steel
Strong
Decisions
Obama
Associated
Balk
Bin
Bush
Unpopular
Decisive
Trait
Eliminate
Normally
Passed
Pleaser
Presidents
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Candidates don't have to deal with reality. They talk about the wonderful things they can accomplish as if advocating them is the same as achieving them. They live in a world of political make-believe in which everything from reconciling conflicting interests to paying for costly programs is easy.
Fred Barnes / Commentator
Accomplish
Advocating
Believe
Candidates
Make Believe
Political
Reality
Wonderful Things
Achieving
Conflicting
Costly
Interests
Programs
Paying
Reconciling
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The mainstream media may have trouble resisting the temptation to declare that Karl Rove has been demoted, but the truth is quite the contrary. By giving up his role as deputy White House chief of staff, Rove has been freed to do what he does best: shape big issues and develop strategies to win elections.
Fred Barnes / Commentator
Contrary
Giving Up
Mainstream
Mainstream Media
Media
Resisting
Staff
Temptation
Truth Is
White House
Winning
Chief
Elections
Declare
Deputy
Develop
Freed
Shape
Strategies
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Conservatives won't want to hear this, but the Republican who maneuvered his way into the most impressive victory of the election was California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger. Okay, he's sui generis. But he won a landslide victory after moving to the center, while holding onto conservatives by not hiking taxes.
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California
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Moving
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Thomas Sowell is America's foremost public intellectual and for good reason. His work covers almost every subject imaginable- race, economics, Marxism, ethnic groups, immigration patterns, just to name a few. He is persuasive and provocative and always scintillating. I've read all his books and never been even faintly disappointed. Black Rednecks & White Liberals is no exception.
Fred Barnes / Commentator
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Race
Redneck
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